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b. 1617 - d. 1678

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    • Attributed to Cesar Boetius van Everdingen (Alkmaar 1616-1678) Vertumnus and Pomona
      Dec. 07, 2022

      Attributed to Cesar Boetius van Everdingen (Alkmaar 1616-1678) Vertumnus and Pomona

      Est: £20,000 - £30,000

      Attributed to Cesar Boetius van Everdingen (Alkmaar 1616-1678) Vertumnus and Pomona oil on canvas 99.1 x 81.5cm (39 x 32 1/16in).

      Bonhams
    • Caesar Boetius van Everdingen, Young Peasant with a Lack at a Fence
      Nov. 20, 2021

      Caesar Boetius van Everdingen, Young Peasant with a Lack at a Fence

      Est: €140,000 - €180,000

      RefMas121121 Who is this young woman? What does she represent and - above all - what is she doing? After its discovery in 2002, this painting by Caesar van Everdingen remained a mystery for a long time. The woman leans against a wooden fence and bends forward, making a gesture with her hand that is difficult to interpret at first. She wears a strange hat and is wrapped in a dark cloak. As enigmatic as the iconography is, the painterly style is remarkable: due to the light, smooth flesh tones, the painting was once considered a work of French neo-classicism until Albert Blankert and Paul Huys Janssen attributed it to Caesar van Everdingen. The idea that a painting produced in 17th-century Alkmaar be attributed to late 18th-century France is testimony to Caesar van Everdingen's stylistic modernity and individuality. Moreover, the fact that the composition has puzzled for so long speaks for the inventiveness of the artist, one of the great representatives of Dutch classicism. The headgear gives a clue to the young woman's identity. She is wearing a pointed hat as worn by Dutch peasant women depicted in contemporary images - the only difference is that she is wearing the hat the wrong way round, with the tip to the back (fig. 1; cf. Blankert, op. cit. p. 136, note 2). This produces something casual, suggestive and nonchalant in her stance. So we are dealing with the image of a young peasant and we can assume from this that she is simply leaning against the fence to feed her animals. The erotic connotation of this painting - half genre, half tronie - would not have gone unnoticed in the past, since the slightly red-cheeked young woman, by leaning forward, openly shows her décolleté and the white blouse she is wearing under her robe. Blankert assumed the painting might have been part of a ceiling decoration because of its low view-point, but this could also speak for a chimney piece. Paul Huys Janssen associated the painting with other female half-figures by Caesar van Everdingen from the years 1650 to 1655 and dated it accordingly to this period. For a long time, the ideal of a tonal painting reigned supreme - for instance Rembrandt and his school - and shaped the ideas of 17th-century Dutch art. This led to the fact that diverging artists did not receive adequate appreciation, for example those artist that are today assigned to "Dutch Classicism". Only a series of exhibitions and publications (such as the exhibition "Dutch Classicism", Rotterdam and Frankfurt am Main 1999) have sharpened perspective on painters such as Caesar van Everdingen. This probably also explains why a masterpiece by the artist such as "A Girl with a Wide-Rimmed Hat" only entered the collection of the Rijksmuseum in 2009 (fig. 2). Caesar van Everdingen was held in high regard by his contemporaries; it was not by mere luck that he was a one of the twelve artists involved in the decoration of the Oranjezaal in Huis ten Bosch, The Hague - the most important art commission in the Netherlands in the mid-17th century (fig. 3). Caesar van Everdingen's delicate, smooth application of paint as well as his witty inventiveness, so admired by his contemporaries, are also evident in this depiction of a perky young peasant woman.

      Kunsthaus Lempertz KG
    • Caesar Boetius van Everdingen, Young Woman in a Black Hat on a Balustrade
      Nov. 14, 2015

      Caesar Boetius van Everdingen, Young Woman in a Black Hat on a Balustrade

      Est: €140,000 - €160,000

      CertificatePaul Huys Janssen, location not given, 20.5.2011. - Albert Blankert (email communication 23.6.2011)The painting has been requested as a loan to the Caesar van Everdingen retrospective in the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar (24.9.2016 until 22.1.2017). It has also been requested for scientific examination in the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, in advance of the retrospective. This painting by Caesar Boetius van Everdingen is a puzzle. The lack of attribute, background landscape and narrative context do not assist its interpretation. It shows a young woman wearing an unusually shaped hat and cloaked in a grey cape. The figure leans against a balustrade, perhaps a fence, her gaze lowered, her right hand pointing down, whilst her posture offers a tantalising view of her ample décolleté. There is no pictorial space - no fore, middle or background - and no landscape. One only sees a cloudy blue-grey sky against which the figure in her hat casts a tense silhouette. The absence of pictorial space intensifies the striking presence of the sculptural figure, strongly modeled in light and dark and yet whose warm incarnation is depicted with flowing, delicate brushstrokes. Paul Huys Janssen (see expertise) dates the work to between 1650 and 1655 and compares it to other female half figures by van Everdingen from this period. In the light of the missing pictorial space and the ostensible view from below, Huys Janssen suggested this work could be a supraporte or ceiling painting. Albert Blankert (email from 23.6.2011) has suggested that the painting is a tronie. At its last auction, the figure was interpreted as a peasant woman whilst the exotic costume was seen in connection with the artist's sojourn in France. We know from van Everdingen's estate inventory that he did produce a number of tronies (Huys Janssen 2002, op.cit.), so that one can follow Albert Blankert's theory, and can assume that the present work is also such a tronie. If one searches for female figures with comparable costumes in Dutch art, one actually comes across representations of peasant women with similar hats working outside (ill. 1a, 1b). The hat was worn over the customary white cap and the direction of the point of the hat could obviously vary; the engravings also suggest that the hat belonged to winter apparel. One can therefore conclude that Caesar van Everdingen's tronie shows a young Dutch peasant woman, working outside and leaning on a fence. What exactly she is doing, why she is looking down, what her gesture means, whether she is feeding the chickens or watching the flock, we are unable to determine.A tronie of a peasant woman outside is an unusual pictorial invention; tronies generally depict young women as maids, musicians, shepherdesses or courtesans (cf. Hirschfelder 2008, op.cit., p. 209). The young woman in the present picture could be called a sister to the courtesans, as depicted by the circle of Rembrandt, particularly Willem Drost and Ferdinand Bol. Bol's tronie of a courtesan for example (see ill. 2; Hermitage, St. Petersburg) stands at a window leaning out so that her décolleté is depicted in a similarly unseemly way to that of the young peasant woman (Blankert 1982 op.cit., no. 142). Van Everdingen's tronie follows this depiction with its erotic substance, whilst the illusionistic motif of the window frame is replaced by a fence. The figure reaching over the balustrade and seemingly crossing over the pictorial boundary is derived from the illusionistic tradition of portrait painting. Van Everdingen creates an astounding presence, liveliness, and illusionism by rendering the figure in life size and reaching over the pictorial boundary so that the beholder gets the impression that he is looking through a window into the open, into the world of the 17th Dutch peasant woman.This tronie shows Caesar van Everdingen to be an ingenious artist. Due to his obvious renunciation of any type of painterly virtuosity, as has always been admired in artists such

      Kunsthaus Lempertz KG
    • CESAR BOETIUS VAN EVERDINGEN
      Jul. 07, 2011

      CESAR BOETIUS VAN EVERDINGEN

      Est: £40,000 - £60,000

      ALKMAAR 1616 OR 1617 - 1678 A  PEASANT WOMAN WEARING A BLACK HAT, LEANING ON A WOODEN LEDGE oil on canvas, oval 91.1 by 74.6 cm.; 36 by 29 1/2 in.

      Sotheby's
    • CESAR BOETIUS VAN EVERDINGEN
      Dec. 09, 2009

      CESAR BOETIUS VAN EVERDINGEN

      Est: £50,000 - £70,000

      GIRL HOLDING A BASKET OF PLUMS

      Sotheby's
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